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African American arts African American authors Biography African American women Southern States Biography African Americans Folklore American literature 20th century History and criticism Authors, American 20th century Biography Folklorists United States Biography Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance Juvenile literature Hurston, Zora NealeWilliams, Alicia
Summary: Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.52 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HURSummary: Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZORHurston, Zora Neale.
Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC HurstDean, Michelle
Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DEASummary: Anthropologist, teacher, first black student to attend Barnard College, author associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This program follows Hurston’s biography, beginning with her childhood in a subtropical paradise in the South that inspired her throughout her life. This documentary includes interviews with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Stone, Dan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: National Endowment for the Arts 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813 STOHurston, Zora Neale.
Contents: Mules and men -- Tell my horse -- Dust tracks on a road -- Selected articles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.092 HURMyers, Christopher.
Summary: A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MYEChin-Lee, Cynthia.
Summary: From adventurer Amelia Earhart to novelist Zora Neale Hurston, this book describes many women who have made a big difference in people's lives. Includes childhood anecdotes about these women, tales of hardship, and stories of success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2005
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CHISchatz, Kate.
Summary: Presents a collection of short biographies of notable American women representing each letter of the alphabet, from Angela Davis and Billie Jean King to Yuri Kochiyama and Zora Neale Hurston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920.72 SCHHill, Laban Carrick
Summary: Explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and discusses the lives and work of Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other notable figures of the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.9 HILHuff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 HUFSummary: Follow the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina, and their friend Brad as they face problems and turn to the Secret Museum to help solve them! Watch as Marie Curie shows Brad that he should always follow his dreams, and as George Washington Carver teaches Xavier to take care of the earth. Charles Dickens even shows Yadina that she doesn't need new toys, her imagination is just as fun!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV XAVHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURJohnson, George M. (George Matthew)
Summary: "From New York Times-bestselling author of ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE comes an illuminating set of profiles of Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance, interspersed with personal essays and spot illustrations by a Steptoe Award-winning illustrator"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024